Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter 2013

I love Easter; it's by far my favorite holiday. Today was made extra-special because we spent most of the day with Emily, Joel, Brinly and Jane. The kids enjoyed their cousin time, and we combined our efforts for a really amazing meal. 
 It's such a beautiful holiday, we just don't want the candy to become the focus (and Gavin would be candy-obsessed). So we opted for a candy-free Easter. We had an egg hunt but filled our eggs with candy alternatives:
stickers!
dinosaur toys--because dinosaurs hatch(ed) from eggs, right?
turtle bath toys (also egg-hatchers)
Other contents (not pictured): tiny play-dough containers, clementines, blueberries and coloring pages. I made these sugar cookies, mostly to take to people. But we did enjoy a couple.
We also had a pretty decadent meal, including Eton Mess for dessert. I made the meringue nests myself, which turned out pretty close to the ones you buy in shops in England. They also made cute table decorations. 
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 bacon-wrapped asparagus
I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

4 comments:

Kirsty*Howard*Harvey*Layla*Miles said...

Happy Easter! Nice job on the meringue! I love your love of Eton Mess :)
Glad you had a good weekend!

Emily said...

Thanks for letting us share such a fun (and delicious) Easter, the girls are still especially loving the turtles and dinosaurs!

KathiG said...

too cute!! the veggies & bacon look good. but then anything looks good wrapped in bacon, even eggplant. ;-)

Jennie said...

Looked like a fun and yummy time was had by all :)